IT is a feature of Brexit that most Leave voters, and a few Remainers, prefer parading emotions to engaging with factual information.

No surprise therefore that Trevor Scott (“It is clear why 17 million voted leave”, Letters, October 3) ignored addressing the facts I presented and focused instead on information unrelated to the EU and insulting me.

Very Trumpian.

The loss of UK manufacturing jobs has nothing to do with the EU and everything to do with decisions taken by successive British governments, first under Margaret Thatcher and then under the incoming Labour government from 1997.

If the EU forced nation states to sell off their manufacturing then Germany, Italy, France and Spain would also have lost their car makers and chocolate companies. But those countries still have national companies making cars and chocolate.

It is our own government that allowed British manufacturers to sell their businesses off to global corporations.

If what you want or believe is impossible, absurd or based on falsehoods it doesn’t matter how much you want it; it cannot happen.

That’s why Brexit is falling apart.

Lastly, like many boys in my class, I worked in the Rowntree chocolate factory for several months when I left Archbishop Holgate’s; I don’t need lectures on life experiences.

Christian Vassie,

Blake Court,

Wheldrake, York

Remoaners should take note of letter

BRAVO A V Martin (It’s clear we have no friends in Europe, Letters, October 8). Take note all you remoaners.

M Horsman,

Moorland Road, York